yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Android Development] MemorialFuze:
No go for any of that, doesn't work. Same things happen when I try.
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Yep you're gonna need a jig. Well once you get it if you need any help pm me. Sorry I couldn't get you back up and running. If you are interested in the unbrickable mod I'd suggest reading though the whole thing and then honestly assess if you think you have the time/skill to complete it and if it's really going to be worth it to you as it can very easily go bad soldering such small joints on a pcb and be time consuming tearing the phone completely down to do the mods.
[Captivate Android Development] shutterbc:
Hope you fixed your DL mode issue -- I had to use a jig for my replacement Captivate recently. My old one would go into DL mode quite easily. Fortunately the jig makes it pretty much foolproof. (aside from hard bricking)
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
He picked up a jig, got it yesterday, told him to one odin one click but haven't heard if it was successful yet.

Sent from my i897 w/Anteres Darkcloud, Red Nebula kernel, & 1.3Ghz OC using Tegrak.
[Captivate Android Development] penguin359:
I wouldn't try unbrickable unless you have the right tools to take your phone apart and an excellent soldering iron and skill for soldering surface mount type stuff. I tried taking the case apart by hand, but never fully succeeded without the rubber tool for separating the front and back pieces.

As for going back to stock, it's not usually necessary and slightly risky if you use one of the standard one-click odin programs. The danger is that one-click odin flashes the bootloaders unnecessarily and if something goes wrong during that period, you can hard brick. I'd first try just flashing the Ursa Minor kernel in an attempt to at least get back to recovery. I prefer Heimdall instead of Odin. You can extract the zImage straight out of the Andromeda3.zip and use something like:

heimdall flash --kernel=zImage

To flash the file zImage through dl mode. You can also use Odin3 (non-one-click), but it requires the kernel to be wrapped inside a tar, I'd have to look it up. If you can get into recovery, but the phone still won't boot normally, you can then try copying over the Andromeda3.zip over USB Mass Storage and reflashing it in recovery.
[Captivate Android Development] perosredo:
I've been running Andromeda3 since well February or something, and have had zero issues--until the other day: my camera sucks. I guess I just haven't used it or accidentally maladjusted some settings.

Any known issues with the camera; either with Andromeda3 or FroYo in general, or maybe the Captivate's camera just sucks?

Example pic.
[Captivate Android Development] 41LY45:
Nope, it doesn't suck, Samsung cameras are beasts Nor does Andromeda3.

Probably a fluke?
[Captivate Android Development] 1tontomato:
The camera on the captivate sucks for low light pictures. Good news is Samsung stopped making phones without a flash. Try taking a few photos in full day light for conparison and you'll notice an improvement.
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
Actually I just came on to look into that too, because I wiped my phone 2 days ago, and reinstalled A3, which is what I had before the wipe, and I instantly noticed the camera pictures weren't the same for some reason. Is there any way I screwed up the firmware or something that might have some effect on the camera quality? I don't think its the ROM but what could do this?
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Well a few things could effect quality, the settings for the camera for one might not be set for the highest quality and just a thought but there are some build.prop tweaks to up the quality. I don't know of any tweaks packs that add the cam and vid quality tweaks but if you manually add them to your build.prop they can help quite a bit on certain devices.
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
Could you point me in their direction, good sir? Would be much appreciated.

«From my Andromeda 3-powered Captivate»
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Sorry for the wait was a little busy for a bit. I pulled these from pikachu's tweak collection but thought I'd post the ones relevant to what you are looking for so you wouldn't have to read through all of it.

These should make at least a somewhat noticeable difference.

Raises JPEG quality to 100%:

ro.media.enc.jpeg.quality=100

Raises photo and recording quality:

ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap=8000000
ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000

I'm assuming you have some idea of how to edit the build.prop if not there are plenty of easy to follow guides on how to do it, a quick search should turn up quite a few. If you have any issues just let me know.
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
Wow thanks. I really appreciate it. I did edit it once a while back for screen resolution or something, so I can probably find a tutorial for it again. I'm surprised the default JPEG quality isn't already 100 anyways. So this actually sounds promising as far as how much you can improve it. Thanks again.

«From my Andromeda 3-powered Captivate»
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
No problem and if it turns out to help out don't forget about the thanks button. I agree its strange that with certain devices, like ours that have more than enough space for the few mb difference the quality jump might make, it doesn't make since not to have it set to the highest quality by default.

On other devices with very tight built in memory, 4 gigs and under, it makes sense because it really would start to fill up fast after a while but not when you have 16gb's of overall storage.

Since you're already going to be adding to the build.prop you might want to go ahead and check out pickachu's tweak thread I linked in my last post as some can really help performance. Only the first half is .prop tweaks though the rest are scripts and a few other random tweaks.

Just a quick tip since I'm at it, anything you add to the prop add to the end so you know exactly what's been added when you need to look back at it and make absolutely sure to make a copy of the original in case something goes wrong. Editing it isn't really hazardous or anything its just best to be safe and have a backup.
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
Yeah I was looking through that list and some of them look interesting but a lot of them are just over my head. I'll have to do some research on them. I'll definitely make a backup, I backup everything everything. And a far as thanks go, I would if I could find it on the XDA app. lol

«From my Andromeda 3-powered Captivate»
[Captivate Android Development] plwalsh88:
So I got this text message from AT&T the other day....

I assume this means they know I've been using my phone's data through my computer? I've only ever used Mobile AP, never USB tether. Anyone know why exactly I got the text? Through some research I came across Carrier IQ as a possible explanation (first time learning about it), but used the Voodoo Detection app which concluded I have zero CIQ on my phone with Andromeda. So has anyone else received this text? Or know why? I guess I just figured all these ROMs that unlocked tethering meant that AT&T wouldn't find out either.

Also, I know high data usage is another possible explanation, but I don't think that's it. Granted I've never checked my data usage (there's apps for that right?), but I don't stream videos/music or watch Netflix like most people. Anyone have any info on this?
[Captivate Android Development] Jsmokey:
Its because they monitor the browser traffic to know if you are using your phones browser or have it tethered and using a pc's browser.

There's a few ways around this you can get the easy tether app or manually edit the browsers user agent string. If you go to easy tethers site they tell you how to do it and its really very easy.

Here's the link

mobile-stream.com/easytether/android_faq.html

The part you want is about a third of the way down, on my phone anyways, and starts with "How do I work-around my carrier's (such

as T-Mobile) tethering block?".
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
Hi guys. I have a I9010 and wanted to install Andromeda3. I flashed Ursa Minor Kernel with Odin and after that my phone booted normally. When I try to get into recovery mode I see a red menu with some digits and after I see the message: Power reset or unknown upload mode. After this a yellow menu appears with this text:

movi_check start..!!

checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]

not need checksum confirmation

-- movi_check already executed!!...

-- movi_checking done!...

update media, please wait

update media, finished

manual mode

-- appling multi-csc...

installing multi-csc

multicsc : src/system/csc/kor/system/ .

install default apk-files, please wait

install default apk-files, finished

after this a blue menu saying:

android system recovery <3e>

samsung recovery utils

-for bml-

enter: menu key, select : vol up / vol down

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

format internal sd-card

Any ideas what I can do to solve this and enter recovery mode?

I have to say the phone enters jn download mode.
[Captivate Android Development] boborone:
Reinstall the rom and try again
[Captivate Android Development] creepyncrawly:
I switched to the Original SGS II in early October, and gave my Captivate to my wife. The captivate has been running Andromeda3 with the Ursa Minor kernel forever, but I can't remember how the nandroid backup functions. The SGS II has ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.x, and the nandroid backup creates a complete image of the phone, including kernel, system image and modem. You can take a nandroid, then flash a completely different rom, or a leak, or whatever, and then when you restore you are exactly back where you started. With ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.3 in Ursa Minor, is the nandroid backup that complete, or do you have to restore the kernel and modem separately? Someone refresh my memory please.
[Captivate Android Development] 1tontomato:
You need to flash the kernel and modem separately. Its easiest to flash the whole rom that you made you're nandroid backup from then restore the backup. :-)
[Captivate Android Development] boborone:
Sounds like a plan to me bud
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
Man I understand how to install the rom, but I have a big problem: my I9010 does not have anymore the recovery menu. This is why I tried to use Rom Manager, thinking I could enter recovery mode. Is there a way I can get recovery menu back?
[Captivate Android Development] penguin359:
All you need to get recovery back is to flash a kernel, such as Ursa Minor, which has ClockworkMod Recovery. One approach is to get into Download mode and use either Odin or Heimdal to flash the Ursa Minor kernel. Another us to try using SGS Kernel Flasher from the Market and flash the Ursa Minor zip from within Android. Then you can reboot into recovery by powering on the phone while holding either Vol- by itself or Vol+ and Vol-. It depends on what bootloader you have installed.
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
INSTALLING THE KERNEL INSTALLS CWM

thats why that step is in there.....
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
I'm pretty sure I flashed the Ursa Minor kernel and the recovery mode menu was not either, that's why I could't go on with installing the rom. Where from can I get a kernel to have clockwordmod recovery?
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
Ursa minor includes it guaranteed

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
Ok, if you say so, I'm gonna try once again. I was wondering if it's ok to use ursa minor #2 kernel this time instead of ursa minor? I downloaded ursa minor #2 and it's a zip file. If I can use it, should I change its extension to .tar?
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
no

you can only flash .tar files in ODIN. you cant just rename a zip and have it work.

i can guarantee that ursa minor 1 includes CWM baked into it.....
[Captivate Android Development] tselling:
I seem to be missing something in understanding how to get Andromeda 3 installed. The installation video says to flash Ursa Minor with Odin. Odin wants a tar file. The Ursa Minor is a zip file and there is no tar file inside of the zip. So how do I flash Ursa Minor Kernal? Thanks for your help.
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12476779#post12476779
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
My I9010 drives me crazy. I started to install Ursa Minor kernel in Odin. I get this message:

<ID:0/013> File analysis..

<ID:0/013> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/013> Initialzation..

<ID:0/013> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/013> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/013> zImage

<ID:0/013> Completed..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)

<ID:0/013> Removed!!

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<ID:0/003> Removed!!

This operation lasts for a few seconds and after the phone enters Android. From Adam's video after installing Ursa Minor the phone enters a screen with Ursa Minor logo, and I guess the operation lasts more than a few seconds. From the Ursa Minor screen Adam enters the recovery mode, but I just can't get there. I think there is something wrong in the kernell installation, but I cannnot figure out what. Any ideas?
[Captivate Android Development] 1tontomato:
Here is a question do you fully understand how the button combos work for entering recovery. First power off the phone, and pull battery just to be extra sure its off. Reinsert the battery hold the vol + and vol- at the same time. Press and hold the power button until the phone boots and wait until the boot loader screen switches and release the power button only and continue to hold the vol buttons until recovery appears. Takes approximately five seconds. If this is redundant just ignore this post, but it sounds like your missing something basic. Another way might be to try adb. Set up adb on your computer and try a simple command adb reboot download. Good luck.
[Captivate Android Development] erycx:
Believe me I'm not so stupid. It's not about pressing the button combos, at the beginning I entered recovery without any problem, it dissapeared after a couple of flashing. The first rom I installed was FastyIIV2.2, to install it I entered recovery without problems. The second installed was the official 2.3 for I897. Both of them worked much better than my actual rom, but being a I897 rom it was not compatible on the telephony part, so I had to get back to my laggy I9010 rom stock. I think the recovery mode must have dissapeared after flashing this two roms.
[Captivate Android Development] penguin359:
Enhancements to the Ursa Minor Kernel

I've been working on a number of enhancements for the UrsaMinor kernel to fix various annoyances I've had and it seems to be running pretty stable at the moment. Mostly, this is just changes around ClockworkMod Recovery to make things a little easier to work with.

Note: This is not offically Ursa Minor Kernel, nor is it endorsed by AdamOutler, mxracer101, or TeamKomin. This is my own personal enhancement to the UrsaMinor kernel.

Included in this modified kernel is:

Alternate boot splash when booting into recovery

This is a feature I've wanted personally since I hate wasting my time only to realize I missed my chance to select recovery on reboot.​

Removed the Back Menu Button has been disabled "feature"

This has been an annoying "feature" of CWR that doesn't really apply to our line of phones. I never understood how the feature even worked until I finally read the source for CWR.​

Support for External SD Card in recovery

The External SD Card can be mounted/unmounted and formatted from recovery and, most importantly, it can be exported over USB Mass Storage while in recovery. This allows me to easily use my External SD Card for flashing zips when my internal SD card is full.​

Power off key in recovery

The source for my modified version of UrsaMinor and my modified version of Project Voodoo Recovery are on Github at:

https://github.com/penguin359/Ursa-Minor

https://github.com/penguin359/android_bootable_recovery

I wouldn't mind getting a few of these changes ported back upstream, but there doesn't seem to be much activity nowadays with such an old ROM, Kernel, and Recovery.
[Captivate Android Development] penguin359:
If you installed a non-I897 ROM with bootloaders, it's possible that the key combo has just changed. In particular, when flashing boot.bin, sbl.bin, and possibly params.lfs (I can't recall), the key combos for download mode and recovery can change. Try pressing just Vol- or just Vol+ when turning on the phone. Release the key(s) shortly after the boot loader splash shows up. Also, what splash screen does your phone currently have? I-9000 or AT&T?
[Captivate Android Development] YoungGun821:
I'd just like to say that I went over to CyanogenMod7 and after a few months, I am seriously thinking about coming back to to Andromeda. I do not understand why its so popular with all the little bugs I have come to experience, with little or no support from them..

Quick question, any updates planned? Whats the newest 'nightly build' do/fix?
[Captivate Android Development] sa1yan:
No bugs here. Just installed it..pretty fast and really good battery. Im sticking to this :D
[Captivate Android Development] capocaccia:
this is a great ROM no doubt but with the official gingerbread update being out the gingerbread ROMs are just as stable and fast. I highly suggest the update.

Sent from my: Captivate running 【stock】【kk4】 rooted deodexed debloated with corn 7.06 kernel
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
So now that the captivates got GB, how do I go about getting it on my phone that's running A3? Flash back to stock using Odin then just use kies to update? I'm guessing yes but is that the fastest way, or best?
[Captivate Android Development] Pirateghost:
Odin or heimdall. Why go back to stock?

Sent from my Incredible S
[Captivate Android Development] Montemuscle1970:
I've been running Andromeda since I got my captivate. I love it. I just figured if I wanted to try a GB ROM it'd be easier to start with a stock GB from Samsung. I've glanced at it and it appears you have to flash new boot loaders to do it and some people have had trouble with it so I thought it would be easier to go the official way just in case something happened. But I'm open to suggestions?
[Captivate Android Development] captican:
Andromeda3 was the ROM that I was on for the longest. I did finally go to gb and then to ics (got the flashing fever:p). Most of the XDA material is outstanding. As long as you read, reread, and ask questions, it is pretty easy.

Here is a great place to start: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1350266
[Captivate Android Development] 1tontomato:
I wouldn't worry about it. Just run the phone down completely then power off and charge completly over night. It just needs to build data for the highs and lows, and that takes time. If after a few days you notice unusual drain what you can do is charge to 100% and leave it unplugged over night. After six to eight hours you can get a good idea of what eating your battery at idle. So far Andromeda is shaping up to be a real winner in the battery competition, at least for me.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897
[Captivate Android Development] sold1erjjt:
Anyway we can get a themes thread started?
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
When I try restoring angry birds data only, the App FCs.

Happens with any of the angry birds games, I cannot restore app data with tibu otherwise I get fc when opening.

Edit: I'd like to see hide am/pm toggle. Its nice having the extra room on the status bar.
[Captivate Android Development] jneilliii:
I reapplied my UOT zip and wiped cache and everything seems ok now.
[Captivate Android Development] Miami_Son:
I never understood the need for the AM/PM. Only heroin junkies and crack addicts can't tell if the time is AM or PM.:p
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
+1 exactly.

Which leads me to believe the dev thinks of us as crack addicts. I am offended. Jkkkkk
[Captivate Android Development] AdamOutler:
^^ Some of us work underground in a basement. Select Settings>Date and time> Use 24-hour format.

I just installed from the market. It worked perfectly up until level 20 when I ran into technical difficulties with my aiming... Those crafty pigs... Everything seems to be working properly.
[Captivate Android Development] Miami_Son:
Then why do you care if it's AM or PM?:D As for 24 hour format, that changes it to military-style time and most people get confused by that (not me, being a former Marine).
[Captivate Android Development] whiteguypl:
Yeah the lack of am/pm and clock toggles are something I was a little disappointed about.
[Captivate Android Development] Thanontos:
Loving Andromeda 3! My question is that the modem supplied doesn't seem to work.for me in my area. If I change the modems, will it affect the volume modifications done in the kernel?
[Captivate Android Development] perosredo:
Have you added corresponding APN settings?
[Captivate Android Development] dallasweb:
camera image storage on external sd

Maybe it's me, late on a Friday afternoon...dunno, but I can't find the setting in camera to use external sd as storage. Is it there? is so, where? Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] Miami_Son:
It's not there. I wish some kind developer would come up with a camera apk that has both this AND the ability to turn off GPS instead of us having to settle for one or the other.
[Captivate Android Development] dallasweb:
Thanks! I really like the ability to toggle geocoding....but also really like external storage...oh my! Guess I'll have to remember to back up my dcim dir next flash.
[Captivate Android Development] aehlayel:
Guys, I've managed to get RTL (Right-to-Left) working :D (for all those cncerned)..

Let me know if you need me to upload the file..

BTW, it works for eveything but Gmail and browser - better than nothing I guess :P
[Captivate Android Development] blitz76:
I tried to use the latest suckerpunch/onix kernel with this rom. If I enable lagfix then root seems to stop working. Su gives me permission denied doesnt even prompt for permission. Anybody else tried? I havent tried speedmod yet, Its next on my list.

Excellent rom btw. Just looking to see if other kernels with different features will work.
[Captivate Android Development] Cezar`:
Go back to recovery and re-root.
[Captivate Android Development] blitz76:
Thanks for the info. Apparently I just overlooked the info in a different thread. Never had to do it before when I flashed other kernels so it didnt cross my mine. Thanks again.
[Captivate Android Development] ez075230:
Don't tell me you can't program a front facing camera into Andromeda either?! http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
[Captivate Android Development] Miami_Son:
Just wanted to let everyone know that on my polite request, member C3POLOL has made some really nice circle battery mods that can be found in this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1006736

The colored one is awesome. Be sure to thank him.:cool:
[Captivate Android Development] ninjuh:
So on top of the fc on angry birds if the game has had data restored from tibu, I'm getting an fc on the xda app. Sometimes when seeking to the first or last page of a thread it will loop on 'Processing' until I hit back, then when I try again the phone vibrates & FC. Anything I can try? I've flashed more times than I can count with ease, I took the time to flash to stock & mc before flashing this rom & these are the only problems I'm having.

I tried reinstalling xda - still fc

I wiped cache & cleared dalvik cache.
[Captivate Android Development] T90:
I don't think this is a rom issue. It's happening to me using tapitalk... just started doing it this evening. Worked fine earlier today...

Sent from my Cappy running Andromeda 3.
[Captivate Android Development] Madtowndave:
Really love the new team komin logo on power down.

When I power on, I always get the robot voice just before the normal andromeda whoosh sound on boot animation...is that normal?

i897 running Andromeda 3